Pushing Droplet Through a Porous Medium.

ABSTRACT: I use a mechanical model of a soft body to study the dynamics of an individual fluid droplet in a random, non-wettable porous medium. The model of droplet relies on the spring-mass system with pressure. I run hundreds of independent simulations. I average droplets trajectories and calculate the averaged tortuosity of the porous domain. Results show that porous media tortuosity increases with decreasing porosity, similar to single-phase fluid study, but the form of this relationship is different.

Supplementary information

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11242-021-01705-z.

SUBMITTER: Matyka M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546388 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature